Another appalling pun. Sorry… So this is a brief look at the Carl Zeiss Touit 32mm for Fuji X Mount. First of all I should just mention how the lens is so sharp I cut myself…. I jest again, but it’s a very good lens. So is the Fuji 35mm, what gives? I think there …
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Just Touit – Zeiss Touit 12mm
An appalling pun and my final conclusion is probably a little more balanced with respect to the subject of this post, the Zeiss Touit 12mm. Its equivalent focal length is 18mm, which is very wide indeed. High level, this is a very good lens and if you like 18mm equivalent you should consider buying it …
Touit to-woo
Cheesy title I know, but bizarrely enough I found myself testing out my Zeiss Touit lenses at Hall Place, a stunning Tudor House and Gardens between Crayford and Bexleyheath and found a great display of display of owls… The house dates back to around 1540 when wealthy merchant Sir John Champneys, a former Lord Mayor …
Impressions of the Fujinon XF 55–200mm F/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS
Wow, how lucky am I? I’ve just finished pulling together my thoughts on the Fuji XF 55–200mm and I get a call from the dealer to say my tou Zeiss Touit lenses (get it?) are on their way… Anyway, to the 55-200mm. A very quick explanation – no test charts or other examples to be seen …
Kew Gardens with my RX1 and D800E in combination
This weekend I visited Kew Gardens in south west London. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are a series of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in Richmond upon Thames. It’s a botanical research and education institution with 700 staff as well as a visitor attraction receiving almost two million visits a year. The …
World’s Largest LEGO Model
This is absolutely fantastic – I love Lego (it’s been amazing playing with it again with my son) but particularly love mad creations like this. James May did something similar on TV a few years back. I remember visiting the Lego world map on London’s South Bank last summer and being bowled over by its …
Vroom, vroom with the RX1
Sorry, couldn’t resist! This bank holiday weekend we visited the Enfield Pageant of Motoring, one of London’s biggest classic motor shows. It was great fun, although the autojumble did appear to be old bits of car on various market stalls… I jest. The Pageant has been a feature of Enfield life ever since 1978, when …
RX1: Flawed Genius?
No, I’m not going to come out with a bunch of superlatives again after my GH3 review. I really like my GH3 but it’s an expensive video camera at the minute – I just don’t seem to use either of my M43s cameras for stills right now. I think I need to sell a whole …
London 1927 in Colour
I came across this posted elsewhere but it blew my mind so I had to post it here. It’s a film recorded in 1927 by an early pioneer of colour film techniques (Claude Friese-Greene) (using B&W film and colour filters to generate a colour effect). It was restored by the British Film Institute recently. The …
Green Park greys
No, this isn’t a feature on the North American squirrels that seem to inhabit every inch of London’s green space, rather a trip to Green Park in the extreme grey weather we had yesterday. However, you could tell this was London, given that people were out and about in deck chairs and generally lounging about …
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